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EP1488116B1
EP1488116B1 EP03738207A EP03738207A EP1488116B1 EP 1488116 B1 EP1488116 B1 EP 1488116B1 EP 03738207 A EP03738207 A EP 03738207A EP 03738207 A EP03738207 A EP 03738207A EP 1488116 B1 EP1488116 B1 EP 1488116B1
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25BTOOLS OR BENCH DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, FOR FASTENING, CONNECTING, DISENGAGING OR HOLDING
    • B25B13/00Spanners; Wrenches
    • B25B13/48Spanners; Wrenches for special purposes
    • B25B13/485Spanners; Wrenches for special purposes for theft-proof screws, bolts or nuts
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16BDEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING
    • F16B23/00Specially shaped nuts or heads of bolts or screws for rotations by a tool
    • F16B23/0069Specially shaped nuts or heads of bolts or screws for rotations by a tool with holes to be engaged with corresponding pins on the tool or protruding pins to be engaged with corresponding holes on the tool
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16BDEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING
    • F16B31/00Screwed connections specially modified in view of tensile load; Break-bolts
    • F16B31/02Screwed connections specially modified in view of tensile load; Break-bolts for indicating the attainment of a particular tensile load or limiting tensile load
    • F16B31/021Screwed connections specially modified in view of tensile load; Break-bolts for indicating the attainment of a particular tensile load or limiting tensile load by means of a frangible part
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16BDEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING
    • F16B31/00Screwed connections specially modified in view of tensile load; Break-bolts
    • F16B31/02Screwed connections specially modified in view of tensile load; Break-bolts for indicating the attainment of a particular tensile load or limiting tensile load
    • F16B31/027Screwed connections specially modified in view of tensile load; Break-bolts for indicating the attainment of a particular tensile load or limiting tensile load with a bolt head causing the fastening or the unfastening tool to lose the grip when a specified torque is exceeded
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16BDEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING
    • F16B41/00Measures against loss of bolts, nuts, or pins; Measures against unauthorised operation of bolts, nuts or pins
    • F16B41/005Measures against unauthorised operation of bolts, nuts or pins

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  • the present invention relates to an anti-theft device, in particular to vehicle wheels, of the type consisting of an assembly comprising a member that can be fitted to the hardware of said wheels, provided with a coding of its own, and a key shaped so as to correspond to said coding and to allow the locking or unlocking of the member on the screws of said wheels.
  • These devices may, of course, also consist of optional equipment when it is not standard on the range of vehicles concerned, or be installed later on used cars, if necessary.
  • Such a device is for example described in document FR 2,518,673 (corresponding to the preamble of the independent claim) which further proposes to provide the pierced face of the adapter member with an overflow flange to make access to said less easy holes.
  • an antitheft device consisting of a screw having, at its head, specific conformations, some of which serve to drive in rotation, while others form a code, requiring the use of a socket suitably shaped in said code to screw and unscrew said screw.
  • the antitheft is in the form of a part comprising a member adapted to be screwed onto a vehicle wheel screw.
  • Said member carries coding holes, it is rotatably mounted inside a cap bearing bores superimposable holes, and it is unscrewable only by a tool having pins whose distribution corresponds to the same coding.
  • a device of the same type which comprises a key and screw assembly comprising cooperating faces on which, depending on the case, projections or recesses of complementary shapes, arranged according to a specific code, and presenting a particular structure to said device.
  • the anti-theft devices comprising a member provided with several holes positioned so as to form a code, can, for example, be easily dismounted by means of a key which would have ground all the pins except for one alone, to turn it into a universal key for this type of device.
  • the present invention aims to overcome these various disadvantages, providing a vehicle anti-theft device of simple structure, inexpensive and completely inviolable.
  • the antitheft device in particular for vehicle wheels, according to the invention, is composed of an assembly comprising a member adapted to be fitted to the hardware of said wheels, provided with coding means positioned and shaped so as to form a code own organ, and a key or the like provided with complementary decoding means of said coding means for cooperating with said member to allow the transmission of a tightening torque or loosening as appropriate, and it is characterized in that said member has a generally cylindrical head lined externally at a distance and coaxially from a flange or the like delimiting with said head an annular space provided adapted to closely accommodate the annular end portion of said key or the like which is in the form a sleeve, and in that said generally cylindrical head has on its periphery, at random angular locations to form said code, longitudinal impressions parallel to the axis of said head, intended to cooperate with concordant impressions that includes the inner wall of said annular end portion.
  • the generally cylindrical head has a frustoconical shape, narrowing towards its end.
  • the frustoconical shape of the head notably makes it possible to limit the possibilities of its grasping by means of a clamping tool such as a clamp.
  • the annular space has a section of flared shape.
  • the imprints of the generally cylindrical head consist of grooves while the indentations of the inner wall of the sleeve consist of bosses.
  • the imprints of the generally cylindrical head consist of bosses while the imprints of the inner wall of the sleeve consist of grooves.
  • the grooves and the bosses have a cross section in a circle portion.
  • a stud for fixing a hubcap means protrudes from the generally cylindrical head.
  • the stud is in the form of a cylindrical block of diameter slightly smaller than that of the generally cylindrical head adapted to cooperate with a fastening means of the hubcap means.
  • the stud is connected to the generally cylindrical head via a breaking initiation groove.
  • the anti-theft device comprises a member 1, intended to replace the screw of a wheel or to be adapted thereto, and which comprises, in addition to a part 2 threaded, a generally cylindrical head 10, and more exactly frustoconical, projecting from a disc-shaped member 11, of larger diameter.
  • This frustoconical head 10 has on its periphery, in its peripheral wall 19, a plurality of grooves 12, in this case four, parallel to the axis of the member 1 and of section in a portion of a circle, and positioned angularly so random at its periphery to form a code specific to the member 1, while a collar 14 protrudes from the element 11 at a distance from the head 10 and externally thereof, to define an annular recess 13.
  • a key or drive member 3 is in the form of a sleeve 30 having a central recess 31 of cylindrical shape, comprising at one end a hexagonal tip 36 adapted to be gripped by a clamping tool, and at the other end a ring-shaped portion 32 shaped to it can be inserted virtually without play in the annular recess 13 of the member 1.
  • the inner face 33 of the annular portion 32 protrude protrusions 34 of cross section in a portion of a circle, arranged concordantly with the locations of the grooves 12, so as to allow a perfect cooperation with them during the introduction of the annular element 32 in the annular recess 13.
  • the grooves 12 are made by drilling holes in the member 1 parallel to the axis thereof and so as to engage the wall 19, while the bosses 34 consist, as is more particularly visible in FIG. 7, in cylindrical pins 35 inserted in holes 37 drilled parallel to the main axis and partly in the collar 32.
  • a clamping tool such as a clamp would require to be able to introduce the jaws of this tool in the annular space 13, and to be able to grasp the head 1 which is frustoconical in order to apply a lot of torque. Which is impossible.
  • the member 1 is intended to be screwed and buried in a well of rim, so that it is not possible to grasp it from the outside of the flange 14.
  • the member 1 has, moreover, a stud 17 surmounting the frustoconical head 10, and provided adapted to allow the attachment of a hub cap means such as a chromed cabochon, the stud 17 consists of a cylindrical block of diameter smaller than that of the frustoconical head 10.
  • the stud 17 can not offer the possibility of grip or support for the unscrewing of the member 1 by means of clamp type tools, too, it is created between the stud 17 and the frustoconical head 10 a throat 18 of initiation of rupture, able to cause the section or the bending of the pad 17 under the effect of a couple.

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EP03738207A 2002-03-27 2003-03-27 Dispositif antivol, notamment pour roues de vehicules Expired - Lifetime EP1488116B1 (fr)

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FR0203818A FR2837884B1 (fr) 2002-03-27 2002-03-27 Dispositif antivol, notamment pour roues de vehicules
PCT/FR2003/000978 WO2003081057A1 (fr) 2002-03-27 2003-03-27 Dispositif antivol, notamment pour roues de vehicules

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PT1488116E (pt) 2006-10-31
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